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Last week my mother purchased an Apple iPhone 3G from a seller on eBay. The price was right (0 for the Apple iPhone 3G, original packaging and accessories, plus an auto charger and two cases; and a 120GB Microsoft Zune, original packaging and accessories, plus an armband), but the phone wasn’t unlocked. So, she gave it to me to figure out the unlocking process.

I was going to take the time to research the best way to go about unlocking an iPhone without paying a lot of money or getting ripped off, but she recommended I use unlock-the-iphone.com. So, I complied with her wishes, and spent .95 for the software.

As it turns out, the software that unlock-the-iphone.com provides is nothing more than older versions of the FREE UltraSn0W that has been repackaged and available for download from unlock-the-iphone.com.

I found this out after spending several hours trying to get the software to work, but having no luck. I wound up having to do the research on Apple iPhone unlocking on my own, as I originally intended, and within ten minutes of finding a decent tutorial and the most recently updated files for UltraSn0w, had the iPhone successfully unlocked and working with a T-Mobile SIM card.

As if taking FREE software and trying to make a profit from it isn’t despicable enough, the company made themselves look even worse by refusing to respond to my inquiries. I purchased the software around 1am on Wednesday, July 9th, and around 11am on July 9th I wrote to them (via their website contact form) to outline my issues with the software, and request a refund. I sent yet another inquiry on Thursday, July 10th. On Friday, July 11th, I opened a dispute with PayPal. It is now late Monday afternoon, and despite the open dispute and yet another inquiry via unlock-the-iphone.com/contact.php, I have received no refund nor any type of correspondence from them.

I am giving them one more day, and then I will escalate the dispute to a claim. At that point, PayPal will take over and resolve the dispute from their end. Since I clearly outlined the problem in the open resolution, and unlock-the-iphone.com themselves claims to offer a “no questions asked” 100% refund, I am confident that I will be refunded, even though it may be because of PayPal doing the refunding themselves.

In summary, stay FAR AWAY from unlock-the-iphone.com. They are dishonest, fraudulent, and nothing more than a scam and a rip-off.

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